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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Old_Scientist, 3 weeks ago |
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| Have you considered adding a battery? Like others suggest, I would try Octopus Cosy for the first winter to get a baseline for your usage and average unit cost of electricity. You have 8h of cheap ra... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Papahuhu, 3 weeks ago |
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| @gz00 Heating, very very important to run on weather compensation and low as possible flow temp. Someone on the forum whom has a Daikin will help you dial that in, reach out once you are moved in. fro... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Papahuhu, 3 weeks ago |
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| @toodles Out of interest, have you managed to get to zero cost (or better) power bills over the 12 mths? | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By AgentGeorge, 3 weeks ago |
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| @toodles i have found the limit on the inverter causes me to use grid power if we cook at 6pm in the winter. Summer we get 2.5kW off the battery and 5kW off the PV so are covered. I looked at adding a... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Toodles, 3 weeks ago |
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| @agentgeorge I regard it as a failure if I wander out of the cheapest Cosy 8 hours per day; normally speaking, the only usage outside of those hours is minimal and might amount to perhaps ~500 Wh on a... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By AgentGeorge, 3 weeks ago |
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| @gz00 i have used cosy tariff for past year and found it works well for me. i have the temp set at 20 all day, we like it cooler as we have UFH too. during the cosy cheap times I boost the temp to 21.... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By Watcher, 3 weeks ago |
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| In your position I would (and have) look at Octopus Cosy Fixed, slightly more expensive than the variable option but not tied in. Run your heat pump 24/7 at your comfortable temperature (21?) dropping... | ||
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RE: Is it just me, or does tradesperson timekeeping and communication drive you absolutely mad?
By Batpred, 3 weeks ago |
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| Yes, and I would suggest likely to get worse with more apps and road condition challenges. I must say our heatpump install was unusually precisely timed.. | ||
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RE: Electricity price predictions
By Batpred, 3 weeks ago |
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| This topic seems more suitable for this thread... I agree with the above, this is clear and particularly in the first few weeks of the year are very likely to result in shortages. To address that, th... | ||
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
By Batpred, 3 weeks ago |
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| It is clearly difficult to say, there must be cases where good work and efficient sales processes are leading to good return, which is not a bad thing. And yes, solar installs must be a lot more prof... | ||
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RE: Who's your electricity provider and what's your tariff?
By gz00, 3 weeks ago |
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| Hi all, I'm new to this game having spent the last 25 years oil fired. In 2 weeks time I am moving to a brand new bungalow with a ASHP (Daikin) and solar PV (no battery). I don't have any technical de... | ||
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RE: Why are ASHP installs so expensive?
By Rob of York, 3 weeks ago |
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| @editor I look forward to watching the podcast. The comparison with our neighbours in Europe is an interesting one. There is an excellent article here: The UK is far from the most expensive. I hope... | ||
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